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Simon Cattlin

Membership level: ARTIST

About the Artist

I sold my first painting in 1978, having just completed my Art 'A' level, and I've been selling a wide range of predominately aviation, aerospace and astronomical art for many years alongside my more recent abstract works. I started working with oil paints when I was 13 and it's the medium I love the most; there is nothing quite like the creative anticipation of a large blank canvas to test your imaginative skills and artist quality oil paints give you a fabulously rich palette to work with. As a small boy, I'd been fascinated by all things aeronautical, and it was that constant interest that started me sketching aircraft before I moved onto expressing myself in colour. The aviation art and aerospace art markets have developed tremendously since the late 1970s, largely thanks to the superb works of Robert Taylor, Gerald Coulson and their peers. The standards created by them set the bar for me and many other artists, who are drawn to aviation art and aerospace art individually, or via the Guild of Aviation Artists, which is the world's best established and most respected aviation art association. I'm an associate member of the GAVA and submit work to the annual exhibition in London. Science & astronomy has been a constant interest for over 30yrs, to have so much of our art inwardly focused on a minutely small particle within the fabric of the universe seems almost dismissive of the panoramic intensity of the wider cosmos. In our journeys beyond the stratosphere - art goes first. I've produced numerous paintings of planetary scenes, starscapes, galaxies, deep space nebulas and well-known icons of the space age, such as the NCC 1701 Enterprise, as well as my own future craft designs. The International Association of Astronomical Artists ( IAAA) is the collective "home" for those of us who combine our love and wonder of astronomical themes with expressive original art. We bring you the images the cameras can't get to, I'm an artist member of the IAAA. Away from the easel I'm a keen aerobatic pilot and produce "high energy" cloud top footage filmed from an Extra EA300.

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Pismis 24-1

"Ascent"

Jupiter from the Ice blades of Europa

Binary system, ringed worlds

Farewell Cassini 15/9/17

Cradle

The icy calm

About the International Association of Astronomical Artists

The IAAA is the world’s only guild of artists dedicated to creating images of space. We paint, draw, sculpt, blow glass, and move pixels to show galaxies, stars, planets, moons, anywhere that the imagination can go, but a camera cannot (yet!). Join now!